Tenth of December author George Saunders in conversation with his Random House editor, Andy Ward. At Slate Magazine. I wish I had an editor like this. (tagged: editing writing ) Are People Being Unfair to the House Republicans? Over at The Atlantic, Molly Ball interviews the recently resigned Rep. Steve LaTourette (R) about the House […]
Using Google Spreadsheet as a database At dataist. tl;dr: Here's how to set up your Google Spreadsheet. Here is how to publish the data as ATOM. Here is how to transform the ATOM data to JSON. Now go ahead and feed that into your data visualization library of choice. (Albeit, you may need to munge […]
AngularJS "Superheroic JavaScript MVW Framework" I'd heard of AngularJS before today but I hadn't actually checked out their site before. While we're on the subject of "minimum viable snippets"… wow: what a landing page. (tagged: AngularJS JavaScript ) Minimum Viable Snippet @fogus: An important point about #3 is that under no circumstances should the Minimum […]
If you’re new to the world of REST APIs, and if you’re looking for a good set of working rules on how to design them, then Mark Massé’s REST API Design Rulebook (O’Reilly, 2012) should live up to its title just fine. It’s a short book (you could read it in an afternoon) and it […]
Good APIs Are Transparent In Their Expectations And Dependencies Ben Nadel with an insightful observation following his read of Nicholas Zakas' new Maintainable JavaScript. This make sense to me. (Also makes me want to read the book even more than I did before.) (tagged: API JavaScript Ben Nadel ) Terrible Yellow Eyes. A Maurice Sendak […]
Strip Mining the Authors The Passive Voice; filed under: "some of the reasons that I'm taking a serious look at self-publishing." (tagged: writing publishing ) Swagger "A simple, open standard for describing REST APIs with JSON" (tagged: api documentation framework development generator work ) About Pepper Spray At Scientific American Blog Network — short version: […]
WordPress Optimization Bible at Prelovac.com (tagged: blog cache optimization performance wordpress ) PHP « Programming « Portfolio lesterchan.net : book marked for wp-dbmanager (tagged: wordpress plugin ) Ajax code loading optimization techniques by Bill Higgins (via Rebecca Murphey) (tagged: ajax javascript optimization performance todo ) YUI Doc (tagged: api code documentation generator javascript JSdoc yuidoc […]
Regex Syntax Highlighter at Flagrant Badassery (tagged: regex todo ) OpenSocial at Google Code (tagged: ajax api code documentation opensocial webdev javascript google framework todo work ) Sass "Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets" (tagged: code css sass framework generator Ruby tools webdev work todo ) Fresh SF Futures by the always fabulous Rudy Rucker (via B²) (tagged: […]
Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces At Flyosity (via JR) – re: “what exactly is button?“ (tagged: ui ux Essay todo ) What storytelling risks could Avatar have taken? at B² – having had about two weeks to unpack it now, I must say that I feel similarly. I hope to put together a more […]
In-wall USB charger is as cheap as it is ingenious at Engadget — so cool (tagged: USB power charger energy blog ) One Million Years of Isolation: An Interview with Abraham Van Luik at BLDGBLOG (via B²) — re: Yucca Mountain (great images and interesting discussion) (tagged: design science future history environment nuclear energy architecture […]